Pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva has announced that she is taking a break from athletics following her poor performance at last month's world indoor championships in Qatar.
BERLIN -- Usain Bolt spent the week telling everyone not to expect another world record in the 200 meters. Don't listen to the man. Not even he knows how fast he can run. Bolt beat another world record into submission on Thursday night, lowering his mark in the 200 meters from the dizzying 19.30 he ran at the Beijing Olympics to 19.19, a mark that sounds more like fantasy than logic.
There are few sports that are so dominated by a single person like the way the women's pole vault is ruled by 26-year Russian Yelena Isinbayeva.
BEIJING -- Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva had gotten up from what looked like a cat nap to find out that she just won the gold medal in the pole vault.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva has broken her own world record in the women's pole vault with a leap of 5.04 meters as she warmed up for her Olympic defense.
Russia's pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva easily retained her world title but was unable to break her own world record on Tuesday.
Former Olympic champions and world record holders Sebastien Coe and Sergei Bubka have both been elected as vice-presidents of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Tennis number one Roger Federer was named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the third year in a row on Monday.
Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia set a world best for the indoor 2,000 meters of four minutes, 49.99 seconds at the Norwich Union Grand Prix on Saturday, beating a nine-year-old mark of Haile Gebrselassie.
Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own indoor world record in the women's pole vault in Donetsk on Saturday, clearing 4.93 meters at the "Pole Vault Stars" event.
Former triple Olympic champion Marion Jones has been included in the U.S. team for this weekend's IAAF World Cup in Athens.
Kerron Clement ran the fastest 400 meters hurdles in the world this year, despite stuttering at the final barrier in the U.S. championships on Saturday.
Germany's Andre Niklaus snatched the world indoor heptathlon title by five points from American Bryan Clay at the Olympiysky Stadium in Moscow on Sunday.
Russian athletes delighted the home crowd in Moscow at the world indoor championships with a hat-trick of gold medals on Saturday.
Olympic and world pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva opened her competitive year with a 19th world record in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva has split with her coach of eight years Yevgeny Trofimov.
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Most aging jocks talk about their glory days. Kelly Rodriques, 41, is trying to relive his. As a teenager and twentysomething, Rodriques was an elite pole vaulter who competed in three NCAA champio...
Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia broke the women's pole vault world record for the second time in 11 days when she cleared 4.95 meters at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting.
Britain's Jason Gardener of Britain sprinted to a hat-trick of European indoor 60-meter titles in Madrid on Saturday as favorite Ronald Pognon faltered.
Yelena Isinbayeva beat her own world record to clinch the Olympic women's pole vault gold on Tuesday coming one step closer to matching the feats of her idol, Sergei Bubka.
Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia broke her own women's world pole vault record at a Grand Prix meeting in Gateshead, England on Sunday.
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